Said Oishi about the curves he threw, "I think they were better than the curves I occasionally threw while I was in college. I'm a fastball pitcher so I'm hoping to use the pitch to mess with [the batter's] timing."

And pitching coach Kazuyoshi Ono's comments on Oishi's session: "His lower body is getting tired, so he was probably throwing his fastballs at 50-60%. ... He needs to polish his fastball and increase the number of quality fastballs he throws in the bullpen. He can worry about the off-speed pitches after that."